Finebaum fails to point out that he himself had an article whose headline read: "Saban will eat Chizik for breakfast". He jumped on the anti-Chizik wagon as quick and as hard as anyone. Now he wants to cast stones at those others for doing so, politely omitting the fact that he ws a ring leader in stirring the pot against Chizik. Chizik had a much more difficult task than Saban did. Saban was begged to come, paid an outlandish salary, received more suport than he could ever utilize, and he was a magnet for top players due to his past record. Chizik had none of that yet he has done wonders in less than two years. Give Chizik credit as credit is due, and Finebaum, accept being wrong as you obviously were. (Unless of course you can come up with some more typical lame excuses, like "running out of gas".....oops already used that one this season!)

You guys need to know your history. 1963 QB Jimmy Sidle led AU and SEC and most of the nation in rushing. This was despite the fact we also had All AmericanTucker Fredrickson on same team. Sidle made All American QB. Second place All American QB was some guy named Namath. Auburn's only regular season loss was to Miss. State as Justin Canal booted a field goal for State. We beat Bama 10-8 and went on to the Orange Bowl and played Nebraska, our first opponent ever with a black player on it. Shug really dressed the team down and stressed being polite. He did not want any roughness to be mistaken for racial animosity. We then promptly got behind in first half. At half time Shug told our guys to forget the being nice stuff and to knock hell out of them. We came back in second half and made it a different game, but still came up a very points short.

What is status of Eric Smith? Seems to be a tough blocker & runner who can also catch. Yet, we almost never hear from him. When Mario was out the talk was about how we were down to 2 running backs, obviously omitting E. Smith. Why?